Dolphins Barn Jewish Cemetery () is the principal Jewish burial place in Dublin, Ireland.
History The cemetery was established in 1898 by Robert Bradlaw,Robert Bradlaw, by Helen Andrews, Dictionary of Irish Biography. a dentist and prominent member of Dublin's Jewish community, who raised £300 in donations to set up a new chevra kadisha Steinberg, Erwin R. "The Religion of Ellen Higgins Bloom". James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Spring, 1986), pp. 350–355 and the Dublin Jewish Holy Burial Society (HBS), founded in 1884.Synagogues of Old Dublin by Katherine Butler, Dublin Historical Record, Vol. 27, No. 4 (September 1974), pp. 118–130 (15 pages). Published by the Old Dublin Society. It was dedicated to financier and philanthropist Sir Moses Montefiore. It replaced Ballybough Cemetery in Fairview as the principal Jewish cemetery in Dublin.
Location and facilities The burial ground lies close to the South Circular Road, in the vicinity of which a large number of Jews lived, and is located near where the districts of Dolphin's Barn, Harold's Cross, Crumlin and Drimnagh meet. There is a prayer room on the site.Jewish Cemetery, Aughavanagh Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12. Buildings of Ireland.
Dolphin's Barn is an Orthodox Jewish cemetery, and Dublin also has a Progressive Jewish burial place, Woodtown Progressive Jewish Cemetery, on Oldcourt Road, Rathfarnham, established in 1952.Dublin, Ireland – International Jewish Cemetery Project.
Burials
The cemetery's earliest burial is that of Ze'ev, son of Gedaliya Levi Goldring, who died on 6 September 1898. It contains one Commonwealth grave from World War II, that of Flight Lieutenant [Pilot] Maurice Donald Khan.Maurice Donald Khan, Common War Graves, Traces of War. The cemetery's founder, Robert Bradlaw, is also buried here.
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